James 3:14

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But if you have bitter jealousy and selfishness in your hearts, do not boast and tell lies against the truth.

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  • Jas 3:16 : 16 For where there is jealousy and selfishness, there is disorder and every evil practice.
  • Phil 2:3 : 3 Instead of being motivated by selfish ambition or vanity, each of you should, in humility, be moved to treat one another as more important than yourself.
  • 2 Cor 12:20 : 20 For I am afraid that somehow when I come I will not find you what I wish, and you will find me not what you wish. I am afraid that somehow there may be quarreling, jealousy, intense anger, selfish ambition, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorder.
  • 1 Cor 3:3 : 3 for you are still influenced by the flesh. For since there is still jealousy and dissension among you, are you not influenced by the flesh and behaving like unregenerate people?
  • Phil 1:15 : 15 Some, to be sure, are preaching Christ from envy and rivalry, but others from goodwill.
  • Rom 13:13 : 13 Let us live decently as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in discord and jealousy.
  • 1 Cor 13:4 : 4 Love is patient, love is kind, it is not envious. Love does not brag, it is not puffed up.
  • Acts 5:17 : 17 Further Trouble for the Apostles Now the high priest rose up, and all those with him(that is, the religious party of the Sadducees), and they were filled with jealousy.
  • Acts 7:9 : 9 The patriarchs, because they were jealous of Joseph, sold him into Egypt. But God was with him,
  • Acts 13:45 : 45 But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy, and they began to contradict what Paul was saying by reviling him.
  • Acts 26:9 : 9 Of course, I myself was convinced that it was necessary to do many things hostile to the name of Jesus the Nazarene.
  • Rom 1:29 : 29 They are filled with every kind of unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice. They are rife with envy, murder, strife, deceit, hostility. They are gossips,
  • Rom 2:8 : 8 but wrath and anger to those who live in selfish ambition and do not obey the truth but follow unrighteousness.
  • Rom 2:17 : 17 The Condemnation of the Jew But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law and boast of your relationship to God
  • Rom 2:23-29 : 23 You who boast in the law dishonor God by transgressing the law! 24 For just as it is written,“the name of God is being blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.” 25 For circumcision has its value if you practice the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision. 26 Therefore if the uncircumcised man obeys the righteous requirements of the law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision? 27 The physically uncircumcised man, by keeping the law, will judge you to be the transgressor of the law, even though you have the letter and circumcision! 28 For a person is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision something that is outward in the flesh, 29 but someone is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is of the heart by the Spirit and not by the letter. This person’s praise is not from people but from God.
  • Gen 30:1-2 : 1 When Rachel saw that she could not give Jacob children, she became jealous of her sister. She said to Jacob,“Give me children or I’ll die!” 2 Jacob became furious with Rachel and exclaimed,“Am I in the place of God, who has kept you from having children?”
  • Gen 37:11 : 11 His brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept in mind what Joseph said.
  • 2 Kgs 10:16 : 16 Jehu said,“Come with me and see how zealous I am for the LORD’s cause.” So he took him along in his chariot.
  • 2 Kgs 10:31 : 31 But Jehu did not carefully and wholeheartedly obey the law of the LORD God of Israel. He did not repudiate the sins which Jeroboam had encouraged Israel to commit.
  • Job 5:2 : 2 For wrath kills the foolish person, and anger slays the silly one.
  • Prov 14:30 : 30 A tranquil spirit revives the body, but envy is rottenness to the bones.
  • Prov 27:4 : 4 Wrath is cruel and anger is overwhelming, but who can stand before jealousy?
  • Isa 11:13 : 13 Ephraim’s jealousy will end, and Judah’s hostility will be eliminated. Ephraim will no longer be jealous of Judah, and Judah will no longer be hostile toward Ephraim.
  • Hab 1:3 : 3 Why do you force me to witness injustice? Why do you put up with wrongdoing? Destruction and violence confront me; conflict is present and one must endure strife.
  • Matt 27:18 : 18 (For he knew that they had handed him over because of envy.)
  • John 16:2 : 2 They will put you out of the synagogue, yet a time is coming when the one who kills you will think he is offering service to God.
  • 1 Tim 6:4 : 4 he is conceited and understands nothing, but has an unhealthy interest in controversies and verbal disputes. This gives rise to envy, dissension, slanders, evil suspicions,
  • Titus 3:3 : 3 For we too were once foolish, disobedient, misled, enslaved to various passions and desires, spending our lives in evil and envy, hateful and hating one another.
  • Jas 4:1-5 : 1 Passions and Pride Where do the conflicts and where do the quarrels among you come from? Is it not from this, from your passions that battle inside you? 2 You desire and you do not have; you murder and envy and you cannot obtain; you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask; 3 you ask and do not receive because you ask wrongly, so you can spend it on your passions. 4 Adulterers, do you not know that friendship with the world means hostility toward God? So whoever decides to be the world’s friend makes himself God’s enemy. 5 Or do you think the scripture means nothing when it says,“The spirit that God caused to live within us has an envious yearning”?
  • Jas 5:19 : 19 My brothers and sisters, if anyone among you wanders from the truth and someone turns him back,
  • 1 Pet 2:1-2 : 1 So get rid of all evil and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. 2 And yearn like newborn infants for pure, spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up to salvation,
  • 1 Cor 4:7-8 : 7 For who concedes you any superiority? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you received it, why do you boast as though you did not? 8 Already you are satisfied! Already you are rich! You have become kings without us! I wish you had become kings so that we could reign with you!
  • 1 Cor 5:2 : 2 And you are proud! Shouldn’t you have been deeply sorrowful instead and removed the one who did this from among you?
  • 1 Cor 5:6 : 6 Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast affects the whole batch of dough?
  • Gal 5:15 : 15 However, if you continually bite and devour one another, beware that you are not consumed by one another.
  • Gal 5:21 : 21 envying, murder, drunkenness, carousing, and similar things. I am warning you, as I had warned you before: Those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God!
  • Gal 5:26 : 26 Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, being jealous of one another.
  • Gal 6:13 : 13 For those who are circumcised do not obey the law themselves, but they want you to be circumcised so that they can boast about your flesh.

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